Miles - Ahead

: The album features Davis as the sole soloist over a large 19-piece jazz orchestra. It is unique for its seamless transitions; Evans composed the tracks to flow into one another, creating a single, continuous musical suite—a technique ahead of its time for long-playing (LP) records.

The 2015 film Miles Ahead , directed by and starring , takes an unconventional approach to the musical biopic. Rather than a standard chronological history, the film is an impressionistic "riff" on Davis's life, focusing on his five-year "silent period" in the late 1970s. Miles Ahead

In the history of jazz, the 1957 album Miles Ahead stands as a monumental collaboration between trumpeter and arranger Gil Evans . This record was Davis’s second major project for Columbia Records and marked a radical departure from the fast-paced bebop era. : The album features Davis as the sole